Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 22:42
Sierra Leone said on Friday it had exported the largest diamond discovered in the west African nation last year -- a 125-carat stone worth around USD 800,000.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 01:16
Two foreign nationals along with their accomplice, a 19-year-old girl, were arrested for alleged abduction of a man here, police said on Saturday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 14:11
The Tamil Nadu prisons department Wednesday morning shifted to Puzhal prison here 22 of the 35 arrested from the American armed ship, Seaman Guard Ohio, under Sierra Leone`s flag, a prison official said.
Last Updated: Monday, October 7, 2013, 00:07
Gunmen shot dead the German ambassador`s bodyguard in Sanaa on Sunday as others kidnapped a Sierra Leonean working for the United Nations Children`s Fund (UNICEF), sources said.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 18:01
A UN-backed appeals court upheld Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor`s 50-year sentence for arming rebels during Sierra Leone`s brutal 1990s civil war.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 18:59
The discovery took place in the rocky recesses of the Sierra del Mayor south of Mexicali, capital of Baja California, after three years of explorations with the collaboration of the Cocopah Indians.
Last Updated: Sunday, March 10, 2013, 20:10
The head of Sierra Leone`s Anti-Corruption Commission says that 29 government health officials will appear in court on corruption charges for having allegedly defrauded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation`s vaccine program.
Last Updated: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 09:26
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years imprisonment for arming murderous rebels in Sierra Leone.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 15:40
Taylor became the first former head of state to be convicted of war crimes by an international court since World War II in 1945-46.
Last Updated: Friday, April 27, 2012, 13:14
Charles Taylor became the first head of state since World War II to be convicted by an international war crimes court.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 26, 2012, 16:23
Charles Taylor is the first African head of state to be convicted by an international court.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 11:31
The United Nations was pressured by the president of Sierra Leone to cut short the tour of its mission chief ahead of an election later this year, the envoy said in a letter revealed on Monday.
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